Samuel Sewall (congressman)
- Samuel Sewall (congressman)
Samuel Sewall (b. December 11 1757, Boston, Massachusetts – June 8 1814 Wiscasset, Massachusetts (now Maine)) was an American lawyer.
He graduated from Harvard College (AB 1776, AM 1779, honorary LLD 1808), and set up practice as a lawyer in Marblehead. He served as a member of the state legislature in 1783 and from 1788 to 1796. He represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House from 1797 to 1800, and from 1800 to 1814 served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, serving as Chief Justice in 1814. He died at Wiscasset while holding a court there. [ cite book |last= Graves|first= Eben W.|title= The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachsuetts|edition= 1st ed.|year= 2007|publisher= Newbury Street Press|location= Boston, Massachusetts|isbn= 978-0-88082-198-8|oclc= |doi= |id= |pages= pp. 229|chapter= |quote= ]
In 1781 he married Abigail Devereux; they had a family of at least six sons and two daughters.
Sewall's great-grandfather Samuel Sewall was a judge at the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, and subsequently Chief Justice of Massachusetts.
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* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000259 Biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website]
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